Au bord de l'eau

S'asseoir tous deux au bord du flot qui passe,
Le voir passer,
Tous deux s'il glisse un nuage en l'espace,
Le voir glisser,
À l'horizon s'il fume un toit de chaume
Le voir fumer,
Aux alentours si quelque fleur embaume
S'en embaumer,
Entendre au pied du saule où l'eau murmure
L'eau murmurer,
Ne pas sentir tant que ce rêve dure
Le temps durer.
Mais n'apportant de passion profonde
Qu'à s'adorer,
Sans nul souci des querelles du monde
Les ignorer;
Et seuls tous deux devant tout ce qui lasse
Sans se lasser,
Sentir l'amour devant tout ce qui passe
Ne point passer!

~Sully Prudhomme~

At the Water's Edge
To sit together beside the passing stream
and watch it pass;
Together, when a cloud glides by in the sky,
to watch it glide;
When a thatched house sends up smoke on the horizon,
to watch it smoke;
If a flower spreads fragrance nearby,
to absorb its fragrance;
Under the willow where the water murmurs,
to listen to it murmuring;
Not to notice, while this dream lasts,
the passage of time;
Only to adore each other;
Not to care at all about the world's quarrels,
to ignore them;
And alone together, in the face of all that grows weary,
not to grow weary;
To be in love while all passes away,
not passing away!

"If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you clutched it for yourself...If you are always taking blessings to yourself and never learn to pour out anything unto the Lord, other people do not get their horizon enlarged through you."
~Oswald Chambers~

What a wonderful and exhilerating feeling it is to come home from work in the evening and not have any work to get done that is due the following day or any time in the weeks to come!!! Yay for Summer breaks!! Lots of events and happenings have occured in the past week or so. It rained ALL last week. Wednesday it rained so hard and there was so much wind that the rain was blowing sideways for about an hour - no joke! Within that one day I had gone through about 3 outfits. Using an umbrella was simply futile as what I really needed was an "umbrella-bubble"!
Everyone give out a big cheer and congrats to Angela who graduated from Harvard Law last Thursday - and if you think of it send an encouraging word her way as she continues to study for the Ohio Bar exam in July. Also in July, my Angela will be moving back to our native land of the Buckeyes where she has accepted a job at a legal aid office in Lorain County. It's the end of an era!!! Well... ok, maybe not an era - but close enough. I was talking to Stefan this morning and he said he was sad for us but I told him not to worry because we can never be separated - we will again be roommates someday!!!!
Which brings me to a new topic - as of August 1 I will welcome a new roommate into my life - BREE!!!!!!! Kudos to Bree and her choice of a roommate (he he he). All will be welcome to 4:00 tea-time, Pride and Prejudice movie nights, Bridget Jones Marathons, and the list could go on and on and on. Bree is also going to be preparing for her Master's Recital this semester so good wishes go out to her as well!
Ok... back on track with this past week's happenings. The admissions and advancement offices at Longy are working on some cool projects for Longy's website, among them putting up a podcast where visitors to the site can listen to students talk about Longy. On Friday, 5 of us sat around a table in the recording booth and were "interrogated" for 2.5 hours on why we chose music, longy, our best and worst days at the school, life in Cambridge/Boston and so on and so forth. It was a really great time and we are going to record several more sessions throughout the summer. I'll let all know when the podcast link is up. Hey, if I don't become famous for my instrument, perhaps I'll become famous for my funny stories!!!
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner and baby are our new neighbors!!! Ok... I lie - BUT they are renting a house in Cambridge just around the corner from Harvard Square. Saturday we were celebrating Angela's birthday and later, at a shop next to the cafe we had just left, Michelle came running down the stairs saying "I just saw Ben and Jen and baby!!" I was sadly 30 seconds too late because by the time I made it outside they had either turned the corner or gone inside a store. However, it has been said that it will not be unlikely to see them frequently in Harvard Square.
Last night was the Longy Gala at Symphony Hall. I didn't perform this year - but I did work. It was a lot of fun - and a lot of work. However, dressing up in a cocktail dress and being *charming* is worth a long evening. I even made my debut as a page turner in Boston's Symphony Hall! Brian Moll (chair of the Collaborative Piano Departmant) and Ashley Hall (trumpet - Artist Diploma) performed an incredible (and incredibly FAST) piece. Man - she's so good. Look for her in a year or two or NOW - Ashley Hall, trumpet. In any case - I hope Brian doesn't read this but there were acouple times I was like "OH MY GOSH WHERE IN THE HELL ARE THEY???!!!". I wasn't able to make the rehearsal so I was going into this "page turning debut" quite blindly. Luckily, and by the grace of God, I turned the pages when they needed to be turned and in time. I only had a couple moments of panic attacks... whew...
So, now my life is back to a bit normal. It did not seem like a Monday yesterday because of the gala which means that this week is going to be super super long.
To close out - go see A Prairie Home Companion. It's super cute. The best part of the entire evening was when they made some joke about mid-westerners and the whole lot of us that went burst out laughing to which we realized we were the only row laughing and had just marked ourselves as THE mid-westerners in a nearly packed theatre!
Ciao!

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths
Enwrought with golden and silver light
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

~William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Monday the girls and I (Angela, Michelle, Bree, and Naoko) took a road trip up to Amesbury to Jayne's house for a studio party/cookout. We spent the later afternoon playing croquet, eating, playing Kubb, more eating, and then a rousing game of Pounce and Apples to Apples. The weather was gorgeous and the company fantastic. Jayne definetely needs to host more parties! :-P